# Saskia Reeves

Saskia Reeves (born 16 August 1961) is a British actress, known for her roles in films including Close My Eyes (1991) , I.D. (1995), and Our Kind of Traitor (2016), in the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, and in TV series, including as a series regular in Luther (2010), Shetland (2016), and Slow Horses (2022–present).

## Early life and education

Saskia Reeves was born on 16 August 1961 to a Dutch mother and English father, and brought up in Twickenham and Paddington, London. Reeves attended the Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton.
According to Reeves, her father was an actor, writer and singer. As a teenager, while her parents did not encourage her, she and her sister attended weekend acting workshops "for a laugh". Reeves was faring poorly in secondary school, missing classes and not doing homework, and didn't take her university-qualifying A-level exams. She discovered "drama school" as an alternative to university that didn't require A-levels; it sounded like "brilliant fun" and would give her three years to figure out her future. She attended London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She then worked for a year and a half as a waitress before getting a "decent job in a theatre in Wales", followed by other jobs, until she concluded, "I could earn a living at this".

## Career

Early in her career Reeves performed in puppet shows and in satirical revues at the Covent Garden Community Theatre. Her stage work includes productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at London's Royal National Theatre. She was a member of the Cheek by Jowl international theatre company. In 2008, she starred in the English Touring Theatre revival of Athol Fugard's Hello and Goodbye at the Trafalgar Studios in London.
Reeves work in film includes: Close My Eyes (1991); I.D. (1995); Butterfly Kiss (1995) co-starring with Amanda Plummer – described in the New York Times as "a disturbing road movie that suggests a twisted British answer to 'Thelma and Louise' spiced with dashes of 'Heavenly Creatures' and 'Natural Born Killers'"; and Our Kind of Traitor (2016).
Reeves' numerous television credits include Spooks, The Commander, and the Bodies finale. In 1997, Portlands, a six-part BBC One miniseries about the creation of the suburbs in the 1920s, was her first major TV series role. In 2010, she starred as Anne Darwin, the wife of John Darwin, in BBC Four's Canoe Man, a dramatization of the John Darwin disappearance case, and co-starred as DSU Rose Teller in the first season of the BBC One series Luther. In 2011, Reeves played the matriarch, Anna Brangwen, in the first part of William Ivory's two-part adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, first shown on BBC Four. She co-stars with Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas in the Apple TV series Slow Horses (2022–present).
Reeves has also done voice work, including commercials, narration, and book readings.

## Personal life

Reeves has two children.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1990 | Antonia and Jane | Antonia McGill |
| 1991 | December Bride | Sarah Gilmartin |
| 1991 | Close My Eyes | Natalie / Sister |
| 1991 | The Bridge | Isobel Heatherington |
| 1994 | Traps | Louise Duffield |
| 1995 | Butterfly Kiss | Miriam |
| 1995 | I.D. | Lynda |
| 1996 | Different for Girls | Jean |
| 1998 | L.A. Without a Map | Joy |
| 1999 | Heart | Maria Ann McCardle |
| 2003 | The Tesseract | Rosa |
| 2008 | Me and Orson Welles | Barbara Luddy |
| 2013 | Anna (originally Mindscape) | Michelle Greene |
| 2013 | Nyphomaniac: Vol. 1 | Nurse |
| 2015 | The Program | Conference doctor |
| 2016 | Our Kind of Traitor | Tamara |
| 2016 | The Prime Minister | US President |
| 2020 | Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes | Maddalena Fagandini / Jen / Actor / Mary Wollstonecraft |
| 2020 | Shadows | Mother |
| 2021 | Creation Stories | Helen |
| 2024 | The Outrun | Annie |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1984 | Last Day of Summer | Linda | TV movie |
| 1985 | A Woman of Substance | Edwina | Episode: #1.3 |
| 1985 | Lytton's Diary | Pretty Girl | Episode 1.2: "Daddy's Girls" |
| 1989 | Theatre Night | Greta Samsa | Episode: "Metamorphosis" |
| 1990 | Screen Two | Rosie | Episode: "Children Crossing" |
| 1991 | Screenplay | Antonia McGill | Episode: "Antonia and Jane" |
| 1991 | 4 Play | Helen | Episode: "In the Border Country" |
| 1994 | Citizen Locke | Lady Marsham | TV movie |
| 1994 | Performance | Irina Shestova | Episode: "Summer Day's Dream" |
| 1995 | The Perfect Match | Bridget | TV movie |
| 1995 | Cruel Train | Selina Roberts | TV movie |
| 1997 | Plotlands | Chloe Marsh | |
| 1999 | A Christmas Carol | Mrs. Cratchit | TV movie |
| 2000 | Dune | Lady Jessica Atreides | Episodes 1.2-3 |
| 2003 | Suspicion | Julie Hopcroft | Episodes: 1.1-3 |
| 2003 | Waking the Dead | Dr. Laurie Poole | Episodes 3.5-6: "Breaking Glass: Part 1 & 2" |
| 2004 | A Line in the Sand | Meryl Rodgers | TV mini-series |
| 2004 | Island at War | Cassie Mahy | |
| 2005 | The Commander | Eileen Judd | Episode: #2.1-2: "Virus (Part One & Two)" |
| 2005 | If... | Mary Alton | Episode 2.4: "If... TV Goes Down the Tube" |
| 2005 | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Louise Doyle | TV movie |
| 2005 | Afterlife | Sheila Rabey | |
| 2006 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Eileen Edwards | Episode 5.1: "Natural Causes" |
| 2006 | MI-5 | Sally / Sally Bernard | Episodes 5.6-7: "Hostage Takers: Part 1 & 2" |
| 2006 | Bodies | Mary Dodd | Episode 2.11: "The Finale" |
| 2007 | The Last Days of the Raj | Lady Mountbatten | TV movie |
| 2007 | Silent Witness | DS Maureen Steele | |
| 2008 | The Fixer | Andrea Greene | Episode 1.4 |
| 2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 | Mandy Wymer | TV movie |
| 2010 | Canoe Man | Anne Darwin | TV movie |
| 2010 | Luther | DSU Rose Teller | Season 1 |
| 2010–12 | Wallander | Vanja Andersson | Episodes 2.3 "The Fifth Woman" (2010), 3.1 "An Event in Autumn" (2012) |
| 2010–2016 | Midsomer Murders | Marcia Macintyre, Summer Pitt | Episodes 13.2: "The Sword of Guillaume" (2010), 18.4: "A Dying Art" (2016) |
| 2011 | Lewis | Alison McLennan | Episode 5.1: "Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things" |
| 2011 | Women in Love | Anna Brangwen | TV mini-series |
| 2011 | Page Eight | Anthea Catcheside | TV movie |
| 2012 | One Night | Sally | TV mini-series |
| 2012 | Playhouse Presents | Teddy Brookman | Episode 1.1 "The Minor Character" |
| 2013 | Vera | Laura Marsden | Episode 3.2 "Poster Child" |
| 2013 | NTSF:SD:SUV | P.M.O.T.R.N. | Episode 3.10 "U-KO'ed" |
| 2014 | Salting the Battlefield | Anthea Catcheside | TV movie |
| 2014 | From There to Here | Claire | TV mini-series. Episodes 1.1-3 |
| 2015 | Wolf Hall | Johane Williamson | TV mini-series. Episodes 1.1 "Three Card Trick", 1.2 "Entirely Beloved", 1.3 "Anna Regina", 1.4 "The Devil's Spit", 1.6 "Master of Phantoms" |
| 2016 | Shetland | Freya Galdie | Series 3 (5 episodes) |
| 2017 | Silent Witness | DS Maureen Steele | Episodes 20.3 "Discovery: Part 1", 20.4 "Discovery: Part 2)" |
| 2017 | Redemption Road | Mrs. Hales | TV movie |
| 2017 | The Child in Time | Thelma | TV movie |
| 2018 | Collateral | Deborah Clifford | TV mini-series. Episodes 1.1, 1.4 |
| 2019 | Death in Paradise | Frances Compton | Episode: "Beyond the Shining Sea: Part Two" |
| 2020 | Belgravia | Ellis | TV mini-series |
| 2020 | Us | Connie Petersen | TV mini-series |
| 2020 | Roadkill | Helen Laurence | Episodes 1.2-4 |
| 2022–present | Slow Horses | Catherine Standish | Main role |
| 2024 | Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game | Herself (Narrator) | 3 Episodes (BBC) |

### Shorts

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1999 | TIcks | |
| 2001 | Bubbles | Annie |
| 2004 | The Knickerman | Mum |
| 2006 | Fast Learners | Lynda |
| 2013 | Unoriginal | Beatrice |
| 2015 | Be Now | Karen |
| 2015 | Out for a Walk | Mother |

### Stage

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2010 | National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number | Ruth Minnen | |
| 2017 | King Lear: Live from Shakespeare's Globe | Kent | |
| 2019 | The Tragedy of King Richard the Second | Bushy / Green / Duchess of York | National Theatre Live |

### Audio

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2019 | Dr. Who: The Monthly Adventures | Carmen Rega (voice) | |